Category: Columnist
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Danger of the Single Story (DSS) – By Azu Ishiekwene
There’s a part of my job that can swallow you whole. Journalists are brought up on a diet whose main ingredients are a deliberate blend of crime, sex, and money. Everything else is a side dish.
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The agama lizard allegory for telecoms – By Okoh Aihe
When we were children and worked in fresh farms with our parents, we didn’t understand the heroic story of the agama lizard and the tall palm tree somewhere in the farm. Once in a while, you were alerted to the base of the tree by the sound from the lizard which had just landed on…
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First-class politicians playing second-hand politics to topple Tinubu in 2027 – By Magnus Onyibe
The African Democratic Alliance (ADA), the name of the new political party currently seeking registration with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)—Nigeria’s electoral umpire—is a platform being floated by a group of top-tier politicians who are presently aggrieved.
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Schoolboy errors by spouses-to-be – By Francis Ewherido
Recently, I heard some very touching stories about new marriages, some less than six months, running into troubled waters or crashing. Apparently, these young couples have made or are making some elementary mistakes.
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Ruffled feathers: Rejoinders to my article on Israel-Iran war – By Azu Ishiekwene
The proper thing to do when readers respond to a newspaper article is to respect their right of reply. There were two irate responses to my article last week, “Not the Iran We Thought It Was: What Has Changed in the Persian Gulf.”
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I can’t criticise President Tinubu on the NCC Board – By Okoh Aihe
There is something that age does to a man. It doesn’t just equip him with more rags than the Millennials, the Gen-Z or the Generation Alpha, as Chinua Achebe would have loved to put it in one of the greatest books ever, Things Fall Apart; age slows down a man and tempers his views with…
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Those calling Tinubu T-Pain today will hail him Baba-T tomorrow – By Magnus Onyibe
The fact is, President Bola Tinubu is not exactly a miracle worker—but when it comes to political engineering, he comes remarkably close. An objective assessment of his antecedents reveals that he is one of the most astute and prolific political strategists of our time.
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Nigerian massacres: Treating ring worm while ignoring leprosy – By Owei Lakemfa
I was in Ndjamena, Chad in 2014 as the then Secretary General of the African Workers, to meet the labour leaders in that country. There was a major barracks on the road opposite the hotel I stayed.
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26 years on, same music echos in Nigeria again – By Godwin Etakibuebu
Yes, it is good news that we have survived; with this Fourth Republic for 26 years – counting from 1999, when General Olusegun Obasanjo, a one-time Military Head of State, took over from General Abdusalam Abubakar; the last of the Nigerian Military Junta, at a very elegant handing-over ceremony, after a democratically contested election.
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As Benue burns: ‘Enough not enough’, Mr President, do something! – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Once again, communities in Benue State – the acclaimed “Food Basket of the Nation – are under attack, with death and destruction everywhere.